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Originally Posted by Red Mile Style
Now you're just putting words in my mouth.
I never said anyone is forcing the cab drivers to drink, they are, however, forcing them to compromise their religion. The Muslims are not making anyone not comsume alcohol, they just will not do anything that goes against their beliefs. What seems injust: Forcing these drivers to go against their religion, or making alcohol consumers take a different cab?
Of corse we have to co-exist, so why are you so vehemently against allowing these Muslims an equal oppurtunity to do their jobs without facing moral dillemas? Forcing Muslim drivers to take passengers that are in direct contradiction to their religion is not "co-existing". Fine, 2% of people taking cabs are sober on a Friday night, but I am willing to bet that the percentage is much, much higher at the airport. Even so, if the percentage is this high, this still gives non-Muslim drivers an advantage as they clearly have a bigger customer base. Again, this isn't giving Muslim drivers an advantage, it is more or less rearranging the fares so that when a non-alcohol consumer is available, the Muslim driver can get it. Again, what is the problem with this?!?!? You might have to dumb down your response to this question as I do not understand why anyone would be upset about this.
This isn't anything at all like a vegetarian that is wondering why he/she should have to cut the meat - vegetarianism clearly is not a religion, and there are probably no alternative ways to make the vegetarian still be a butcher without crossing any moral lines. Here, there is a simple way to both appease the practising Muslims, that really doesn't affect anyone.
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How exactly does giving a ride home to someone who has been drinking comprimise the religion?? I still don't get that. The person in the cab is not forcing the cabbie to drink. You admit that. So how does that person being in the cab comprimise the religion? Is their beer breath getting the cabbie drunk?? Does the cabbie lick the sweat off the seats and end up getting drunk? Seriously, how the F does this comprimise the cabbie's religion? This is what I mean by coexisting ... i get drunk, i get in cab, i don't expect the cabbie to drink, cabbie doesn't expect me to stop drinking, we go about our business. Thats how it should work.
The vegetarian analogy is legit. What is a religion other than a set of guidelines that you live your life by? Vegetarianism is the same thing. If you cannot admit that driving drunk people is a large part of the job description of a cabbie, you are living on another planet. You can't become a cabbie and not expect that. Its just plain ######ed.